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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!panix!news.panix.com!not-for-mail From: bryan@panix.com (Bryan Althaus) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Benchmarking different Unix Operating Systems Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.linux.misc Date: 9 Sep 1996 17:01:32 -0400 Organization: Somewhere in Manhattan Lines: 18 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5120jc$qh5@panix.com> References: <aak2.842008017@Isis.MsState.Edu> <50p41e$1ie@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:26961 comp.unix.solaris:82017 comp.os.linux.misc:128086 Steinar Haug (sthaug@nethelp.no) wrote: : [Stephen Haworth] : : | For the casual Unix user, Linux on a PC would probably be fine. For a : | UNIX professional, you can't beat Solaris on an Ultra-Sparc. There : | are MANY other considerations other than some random speed tests run : | on a PC. How about security, scalability, and robustness of the OS?? : : I think the many Unix professionals who run their systems on Intel, DEC, : HP, SGI etc would disagree with you. : Not once they tried Solaris in an Ultra-Sparc ;^) Actually for me what seals the deal is SunSoft's Visual Worksop C++. I'm moving to HP-UX (again!) and am not looking forward to HP's SoftBench development system. I asked about it in comp.sys.hp.hpux and most repsonses were negative. Also from a programmers point of view, the lack of thread support is another minus.